Vista - installing games in seperate partition

I posted this in the wrong section I think, so I'll try here.

Not sure I even know exactly how to ask this, but I'll do my best. I've installed Vista Ultimate 64 (new volume c) on an additional hard drive. I want to install games on a seperate partition on this hd. I was unable to install the first game I tried (Eq2) I got the error that I need to select a valid directory. I posted on the eq2 forums and was told that I needed a fully qualifed directory. The partition is new volume e. I just had to type e:\games\eq2. That worked fine and the game installed. I have some other games to install, and I am wondering if there is some generic command I need to type in for other games. I had installed Hellgate London in e without error messages, but I noticed later that it didn't show up in my list of programs, or in the remove programs through the control panel. I had completely reinstalled Vista on the first partition (new volume c) after hellgate was installed so maybe that caused it not to show up. After I reinstalled Vista I formatted e, and started over so I just have eq2 on e now. Hope I made at least a little sense, being the amateur I am. Thanks

hello and welcome,

Vista likes to install games in the Games group on the start menu - a little known fact unfortunately.

You cannot really install a game on another partition because part of the install resides in the registry - which is always on the boot drive.

So when you re-installed Vista you lost the game because the old registry was erased.

Also a second partition is not suitable as a backup. I have found that when the first partition gets trashed, frequently the other partitions fail too.

So if I were you, I would delete the second partition and enlarge the size of c: to the whole disk (vista can do this in Manage). Installation then becomes simple again.

good luck and merry xmas

Thanks for the reply. Not sure how to go about that, so I guess I need to read up on that stuff ). It's a 750 GB hd with OS, and some apps etc on new volume c (50GB), and a couple games on new volume e (100gb), and then 550gb still unallocated.

A very merry Xmas to you too